# build-integration

Guides the development and publishing of GitBook integrations. Helpful when building custom editor blocks, configuring webhooks, or setting up OAuth flows.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 565 installs · ★ 22
- Author: GitbookIO
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/build-integration/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/build-integration

## What it does

This skill guides developers through GitBook's developer platform. It helps scaffold directories via `gitbook new` and define permissions in `gitbook-manifest.yaml`. Components run inside GitBook's backend environment rather than the browser DOM. Because of this runtime model, injecting arbitrary `<script>` tags into documentation pages is unsupported.

Local development works through a proxy. The `gitbook dev` command intercepts traffic from an active GitBook space and forwards it to your machine. Consequently, you must deploy a draft via `gitbook publish` and install it into a space before local debugging works.

Getting started requires Node 18+ alongside the `@gitbook/cli` package, authenticated with a developer access token. The skill helps wire up event listeners such as `space_content_updated` and handle external HTTP requests.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --skill build-integration -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/build-integration/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/build-integration/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --skill build-integration -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/build-integration/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --skill build-integration -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/build-integration/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install GitbookIO/gitbook-skills build-integration
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/build-integration/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --skill build-integration -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --path skills/build-integration
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/build-integration/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --skill build-integration -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/build-integration/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- scaffold a new integration project using gitbook new
- build editor components using ContentKit TSX and createComponent
- declare scopes and settings schemas in gitbook-manifest.yaml
- route live editor traffic to a local machine using gitbook dev

## Example prompts
- Scaffold a new GitBook integration that renders an interactive feedback block
- Add an event handler for space_content_updated in src/index.tsx
- Configure secret tokens and OAuth settings in gitbook-manifest.yaml

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: build-integration
metadata:
  version: "1.0"
description: "Build, develop, and publish GitBook integrations — apps that run inside GitBook to add custom blocks, react to events, connect external services via OAuth, and extend the editor. Use this skill whenever a task involves the GitBook integrations platform: scaffolding an integration with the GitBook CLI (`gitbook new`), writing or editing an integration's code (`createIntegration`, `createComponent`, ContentKit TSX), configuring `gitbook-manifest.yaml` (scopes, blocks, configurations, secrets), building custom editor blocks or link unfurlers, handling GitBook events like `space_content_updated`, setting up an integration's OAuth flow, running `gitbook dev`, or publishing an integration (private/unlisted/public, marketplace submission). Trigger this even if the user just says they want to 'build an app for GitBook', 'add a custom block', or 'connect <some tool> to GitBook' without saying the word 'integration'."
---

# Build a GitBook Integration

A skill for building integrations on GitBook's developer platform: apps that run inside GitBook itself. An integration can render custom blocks in the editor, show configuration UI, listen to events (content updated, Git sync completed, space viewed), authenticate against external services with OAuth, and talk to anything over HTTP.

This skill covers the integration lifecycle — scaffold, code, develop, publish. For creating or restructuring the docs *site* an integration might be installed into, defer to `configure-site`; for authoring page content, defer to `write-docs`.

## What an integration is (mental model)

An integration is a small TypeScript app executed by GitBook's runtime — not a script injected into pages, and not code running on the user's server. Three consequences shape everything else:

1. **Rendering happens on GitBook's backend.** Your component's `render` function runs server-side on every interaction and returns ContentKit markup (a JSX-like UI description). There is no client-side React tree you control, no DOM access, and UI updates flow through the action → new state → re-render loop.
2. **You cannot inject JavaScript into a site.** The `site:script:inject` and `site:script:cookies` scopes you'll see in GitBook-owned integrations are internal-only. If the user's plan amounts to "add a script tag to their docs", stop and say so early — the supported paths are custom blocks, webframes, and events.
3. **Local development is a proxy, not a server you visit.** `gitbook dev` routes the *installed* integration's traffic to your machine. You never open the dev server's port in a browser; you interact with the integration inside app.gitbook.com.

## The project

`gitbook new` scaffolds this shape:

```
my-integration/
````
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